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Found a recipe for diy hide glue:
Yes, from animal hides, almost any animal but primarily from cattle hides. This is simply because of the abundance of cattle hides due to the enormous world wide consumption of beef and subsequent tanning of hides for leather. The trimmed hide pieces (too small or irregular shapes to provide useable leather) are shipped to the hide glue plant.
The glue manufacturing process is basically the following:

wash to remove dirt
soak in lime water for 60-90 days
wash to remove hair and lime
neutralize with acid, drain, wash & drain
add water, heat to 110-120 deg. F for 2-4 hours (called an extraction)
drain off the dilute glue solution, evaporate, chill, dry, grind
repeat last 2 steps 3-4 times to extract all of the glue with the temperature being increased 20-25 deg. F each time.

The process can lend itself to "home brewing" but it is messy and the aroma is found by some to be less than exciting! Your best bet is to buy the finished product from a reliable supplier.

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Greg
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I'm happy buying my granulated hide glue.

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Actually you make it all the time at home, you just never realise. It usually ends up in the gravy.

Really appealing...

I'm such a bad cook that if i'd attempt cooking me a batch of HHG, i most surely end up with sugar pie!

You can buy raw gelatin at you local grocery store it is hide glue Don't use the resipe on the box or it will be too thin

That can't smell good at all...

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Joe Breault
Merrimack, NH
Perpetual novice

[QUOTE=Serge Poirier] I'm such a bad cook.... [/QUOTE]

Haha, welcome to the club!! Sam Price39066.7039699074

Apply some HHG to some window glass and leave it in the sun, then see what happens.

CrowDuck

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Chris Nielsen
Soquel, CA.

[QUOTE=PaulB] Actually you make it all the time at home, you just never realise. It usually ends up in the gravy.[/QUOTE]






Thanks, Paul,   that explains the constipation!!

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

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I heard {I think} that another thing you can do in place of hide glue is buy pure gelatin from the grocery and heat and use that instead for repairs - I think I read that on the Gryphon site somewheres - am I wrong or confusing something here?
Cheers
Charliewood

Yes it's just gelatin, which is just denatured collagen. You're better off with the proper stuff tho if you can get it, that way you get told a gram strength so you know what you're dealing with.